That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.